
Writing in this week’s NLJ, Townsend explains how social distancing requirements during the pandemic meant digitisation ‘seeped into places it had still yet to actively engage’. She writes that the benefits of automation are more than time saving and efficiency, they reduce ‘the risk of rekeying errors’.
Also in NLJ, barrister and journalist Veronica Cowan reports on the compliance benefits of electronic conveyancing and the rapid move from manual to digital ID checks in the past year.